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Covers foundational IR concepts through advanced neural approaches, with lectures on indexing, evaluation metrics, word embeddings, Transformers, BERT-based re-ranking, and dense retrieval with knowledge distillation. Materials include YouTube recordings, slides, and closed captions, alongside hands-on exercises implementing neural re-ranking models and extractive QA systems using pre-trained models from the HuggingFace ecosystem. The course emphasizes the paradigm shift toward large-scale language models in modern search technology, designed for remote and in-person delivery.

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